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The Salem Trayned Band will visit Bourne’s Aptucxet Trading Post for their Colonial Day event on Saturday 13 July 2013 at the invitation of Plymouth’s New Plimmoth Gard.  We may also be there the following day, Sunday 14 July, for … Continue reading →

The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate c. 1630 English pike drill and seventeenth-century camp life at the Strawbery Banke Museum’s An American Celebration on Thursday 4 July 2013 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Then we’ll see the fireworks of dozens of … Continue reading →

The Salem Trayned Band will spend the weekend of 22 and 23 June at Salem Pioneer Village 1630 to help celebrate its opening weekend.  As Gordon College has recently declined to continue managing the site, it may also be the … Continue reading →

The Salem Trayned Band will march in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts’ June Day parade on Monday 3 June 2013, in downtown Boston.  This annual event, held on the first Monday in June, recreates the Ancient and … Continue reading →

We will participate in the National Guard and Salem Veterans Council’s 376th-anniversary commemoration of the first regimental muster in North America, in Salem, Massachusetts, on Saturday 6 April 2013.  The schedule includes ceremonies at Armory Park and on Salem Common, … Continue reading →

The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate pike drill at Smith College’s ConBust ’13, on Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 1:00 pm on Seelye Lawn.

The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate pike drill at Arisia ’13, on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 10:00 am in Grand Ballroom AB.  From the Arisia ’13 Schedule: Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630 Pike Drill When the first English colonists came to … Continue reading →

We will participate in America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 November 2012.  We’ll march in the parade on Saturday, starting at 10:30 am, and will give a drill demonstration in the Portal to the … Continue reading →

The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate c. 1630 English pike drill and seventeenth-century camp life at the Massachusetts National Guard’s third annual Open House at Camp Edwards, the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod, on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 September 2012.  … Continue reading →

The Salem Trayned Band will demonstrate c. 1630 English pike drill and seventeenth-century camp life at the National Park Service’s Salem Maritime Festival on Saturday 4 August 2012 in Salem, Massachusetts.  Look for a photo of Paul and Andy that … Continue reading →